Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

— Sharon Salzberg

Distraction wastes our energy, concentration restores it.

— Sharon Salzberg

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

— Sharon Salzberg

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

— Sharon Salzberg

Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

— Sharon Salzberg

Etta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing Etta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves. We can open to everything with the healing force of love. When we feel love, our mind is expansive and open enough to include the entirety of life in full awareness, both its pleasures and its pains, we feel neither betrayed by pain nor overcome by it, and thus we can contact that which is undamaged within us regardless of the situation. Etta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be.

— Sharon Salzberg

Etta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear anything. We are whole: our deepest happiness is intrinsic to the nature of our minds, and it is not damaged through uncertainty and change.

— Sharon Salzberg

Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.

— Sharon Salzberg

Even as we recognize our resentment, bitterness, or jealousy, we can also honor our own wish to be happy, to feel free.

— Sharon Salzberg

Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That’s life. That’s human nature.

— Sharon Salzberg